Setting.



PATENTED DEC. 4, 1906.

G. W. DOVER.

SETTING. APPLIOATfON FILED MAYIB, 190s.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SETTING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec..4, 1906.

Application filed May16, 1906. Serial No. 317,237

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. DOVER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cranston, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Settings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to box-settings for stones and gems, and has for its object a structure which shall be adapted for mounting in any jewelry or other article without the use of solder.

It is well known that the heat involved in soldering anneals and weakens the metals adjacent to soldered joint and that discoloration of the metals ultimately ensues in many cases.

My invention consists in providing a channel upon the exterior of the box-setting adapted to receive the margin of any article of jewelry in which the setting is to be mounted.

In the drawings, wherein like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my new setting engaging a gem; Fig. 2, a plan of the same without the gem; Fig. 3, a transverse section of the same on line as w of Fig. 2; Figs. 4 and 5, plan views of the oval and square forms, respectively, of my setting; Fig. 6, a perspective of my setting engaging a gem and mounted in an ornamental safetypin, and Fig. 7 a like view of the setting mounted in a hat-pin.

V The body A of my setting is constructed from a metallic strip or from a tube into a circular, oval, or rectangular form. The setting-wall a has upon its exterior a groove a, preferably semicircular in cross-section, equidistant at every point from either the top or bottom margin of the setting-body. The interior of the wall a is near its top cut away, forming an inwardly and downwardly inclined shoulder M, from which rises a vertical flange (L The gem B rests upon the shoulder a and is held in position by overturning the flange a upon its outer margin.

A convenient way of utilizing my new setting is illustrated in conjunction with the safety-pin shown in Fig. 6, where the pinbody C is formed of springy wire so bent as to form an embracing spring-wire loop 0,

which rest by pressure in the groove a of the pin-body.

My setting is shown in Fig. 7 engaged in the head D of a hat-pin comprising a loop d, which rests by pressure in the groove a of the hatinbody.

The a ove examples serve to illustrate the adaptability of my new box-setting for use in articles of jewelry of various kinds without the use of solder.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The combination with a pin comprising a pin-body with a loop therein, of a box-setting provided with an external channel adapted to receive the loop.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE W. DOVER.

Witnesses:

HORATIO E. BELLOWS, JAMES H. ARTHUR. 

